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            Beyer Peacock Works No 2605 'Cecil Raikes' 0-6-4T Mersey Railway is hauled out of the decaying shed at 'Steamport' Southport in May 1995. L&Y 0-4-0ST Pug No. 51218 is doing the pulling.

Cecil Raikes is one of a class of nine engines built by Beyer Peacock & Co (Works No 2605) in 1885 for working trains through the tunnel of the Mersey Railway between Liverpool and Birkenhead.

Later the steam locomotives were sold off and four to J. & A. Brown of New South Wales, Australia, where one, number 5 (former Mersey Railway number 1 The Major), is preserved at the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum.

Cecil Raikes was one of two which were sold to Shipley Colliery in Derbyshire in 1904, where it worked for the next fifty years. Following storage at Derby Locomotive Works for a number of years, Cecil Raikes was presented to National Museums Liverpool by the British Railways Board in 1965.

This is a very elusive engine and has been in store at Bootle on Merseyside and not available for public viewing.
I am not aware that the planned transport museum has completed in Birkenhead. Anyone with any updates?

Thanks to Preserved British Steam Locomotives website for the historical details.

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Taken on: November 12, 2021

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